Histoire littéraire des fous

by: Delepierre, Octave, 1802-1879

Publication date: 1860

Topics: Literature, Mental Disorders, Mental illness, Genius, Literature and mental illness

Publisher: London : Trübner

Collection: medicalheritagelibrary; francisacountwaylibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

Contributor: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Language: French

A reissue, in revised and enlarged form, of two papers which first appeared in the Miscellanies of the Philobiblon society, v. 3-4, under titles "Études bio-bibliographiques sur les four littéraires," and "Essai biographique sur l'histoire littéraire des fous."

Introduction.--1. sect. Théologie.--2. sect. Belles lettres.--3 sect. Philosophie et science.--4. sect. Politique. 2 ptie. Biographies: Bluet d'Arberes. 1 sect. Biographie. 2 sect. Bibliographie. Jean Marie Chassaignon. Alexandre Cruden. Sir Thomas Ames Gevaert. Table alphabetique. Autres ouvrages du meme auteur

Includes bibliographical references